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Dateline: 12th October, 2005
London's Savoy Theatre has been sold to the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) and the Tulbart Group. The original theatre on the site opened on 10th October 1881 at the instigation of Richard D'Oyley Carte from the profits from Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, and was rebuilt in 1929. It was severely damaged by fire in 1990, after which it was restored to its 1929 state and re-opened in 1993. The Savoy has another claim to fame: it was the first public building in the world to be lit by electricity. The sale brings the number of ATG's West End theatres to eleven and the total number of its theatres to 24. Its portfolio of West End theatres includes the Comedy, Donmar Warehouse, Duke of York's, Fortune, New Ambassadors, Phoenix, Piccadilly, Playhouse (co-ownership and management) and the new Trafalgar Studios. ATG's regional theatres include The Ambassadors Woking encompassing the New Victoria and Rhoda McGaw Theatres and a 6 screen cinema complex; the Theatre Royal, Brighton; the Victoria Concert Hall, Stoke-on-Trent; the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent; Milton Keynes Theatre; the Churchill Theatre in Bromley; Richmond Theatre, Surrey; the King's Theatre in Glasgow; the New Wimbledon Theatre and the New Wimbledon Studio, London and, most recently, the Theatre Royal Glasgow. ATG provides a ticketing serice for, but does not own, the Old Vic. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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